SoulFire77
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I have 161 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 54640 times
and 173 of my stories have been cherry picked.
16 of my 95 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 24 votes
J. Oliver Padgett writes horror and dystopian fiction from the North Carolina Piedmont. His work explores economic coercion, institutional complicity, and what people become when survival demands compromise. Novels include "Lily", "The Interview", and "Escape From Room 101". His prose favors psychological dread over graphic violence, working-class authenticity over literary posturing, and endings that deny comfort. By day, he works in warehouse logistics—a background that informs his fiction's attention to the quiet machinery that grinds people down.
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Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (2)
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Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (1)
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The Less Miserables Learn a Flip (2)
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- 322 reads
The Less Miserables Learn a Flip (1)
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The Kept Ledger (2)
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